kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down
authorMatthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:40:30 +0000 (17:40 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:04:10 +0000 (21:04 +0000)
commit1b6ac21299cf63848bc8084aaafa2128418f9de7
tree984c20822ba7b492a7ad1ad6c39d07557b6067de
parent2100f2735f31d8223fa3470574ba01f269189fad
kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down

kexec permits the loading and execution of arbitrary code in ring 0, which
is something that lock-down is meant to prevent. It makes sense to disable
kexec in this situation.

This does not affect kexec_file_load() which can check for a signature on the
image to be booted.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0044-kexec-Disable-at-runtime-if-the-kernel-is-locked-dow.patch
kernel/kexec.c